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04-02-2009, 07:21 PM
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| | WLS Master Guru
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 970
Weight Statistics All of my life! Start Date:
12/01/08 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
309 lb Start Weight:
138 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
171 lb Weight Loss:
-32 lb Lb Left to Lose:
55.3398058252 % % Lost:
Original 12/09 Actual 09/09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index49.8684573003 BMI Start:
22.2713498623 BMI Current:
27.4357208448 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Ok so there is no disputing that I have lost 84 lbs and in smaller clothes, so why do I still feel like I am 309 lbs and in a size 28?
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04-02-2009, 07:41 PM
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| | Whipper Snapper
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Jarrettsville Maryland
Posts: 25
Weight Statistics 3/21/08 Start Date:
10/21/08 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
287 lb Start Weight:
162 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
125 lb Weight Loss:
12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
43.5540069686 % % Lost:
10/21/10 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index46.3179522498 BMI Start:
26.1446280992 BMI Current:
24.2079889807 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I know what you mean! I have lost 80 pounds and still think I weigh more when it comes to new clothes, squeezing through smaller spots,sitting in certain chairs, etc. I guess its just that we have tried to lose weight so many times and have failed that we are having a difficult time believing that we have succeeded. I am trying to have a more positive body image and its getting there slowly. I think we have to realize WE CAN DO THIS! 
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04-02-2009, 08:14 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 3,239
Weight Statistics April 11th 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
267 lb Start Weight:
142 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
125 lb Weight Loss:
-8 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.8164794007 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index45.8254394531 BMI Start:
24.3715820312 BMI Current:
25.7446289062 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Its a HUGE mind game this rollercoaster ride we are all on. I am just about two years out and there are still days I think of myself as the old heavy me. I am now wearing a size 6 and I still dont see it or feel it everyday.
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04-02-2009, 08:24 PM
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Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 8,641
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
280 lb Start Weight:
172 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.5714285714 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.3442554085 BMI Start:
25.3971854652 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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It took a long time to accept our fat persona, and we had that for how long? Years? You had your surgery just a few months ago, and you're still trying to break out of the old cocoon and spread your wings in the sun. It'll take quite a while to even accept that you are small, because you've trained yourself otherwise over that whole period of time. In due time, your mind will believe what your eyes are now rejecting, that you are indeed melting away. But it'll take a while to get there.
You're normal. We all go through this to some degree. You deny the image others tell you they see because you look in the mirror and your eyes deceive your mind, which resists the evidence piling up all around you in smaller sizes, weight, and healthy indicators.
Just accept that you're rejecting it now and that sometime later you'll convince yourself otherwise. It's a mind game!!
CT
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04-02-2009, 08:59 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 3,605
Weight Statistics July 10, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
271 lb Start Weight:
175 lb Current Weight:
182 lb Goal Weight:
96 lb Weight Loss:
-7 lb Lb Left to Lose:
35.4243542435 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index43.7357667585 BMI Start:
28.2426538108 BMI Current:
29.3723599633 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Personally, I think this journey is mostly mental once the WLS helps with the actual weight loss - changing your mind ~ that's the real trip!
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04-02-2009, 09:49 PM
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| | Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tokyo, Japan
Posts: 24,788
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What you are thinking is quite normal. This is why I say it's as much, even more, a mind game than a physical game.
Check out the conversation I had with CraigT about this a couple or year ago. How long before I....
Also, something I posted way back when. Image of Self The Tricks Our Brain Play On Us
Hope this helps.
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04-02-2009, 10:09 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: upstate ny
Posts: 2,091
Weight Statistics 1/10/08, the final endeavor, I WILL SUCCEED!!! Start Date:
3/12/08 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
Height:
316 lb Start Weight:
203 lb Current Weight:
180 lb Goal Weight:
113 lb Weight Loss:
23 lb Lb Left to Lose:
35.7594936709 % % Lost:
7/09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index55.9707734946 BMI Start:
35.9559082892 BMI Current:
31.8820861678 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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well, for myself, i NEVER saw myself in adult life or even in childhood as thin or anywhere near of that of a thin person... it makes me LAUGH when people say you can "stop now, you look good the way you are"
Yes we feel good, but the body image is so.... distorted cause of the years of living in the fat body we carried..at least for myself, i know that's the truth... does it scare me??? heck ya~~
i don't want to look anorexic or anything & i've told my close friends to not to let me get that far out, but since they saw me at my very heaviest at 304#, weighing 175 is a great job & they expect me to stop now... i'm not ready, & hope my body is not either?????
sorry for the rambling...
hope i made some sense in this post...
LOL,
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